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I am a camera
Articles, journal entries and images reflecting on places, often cities. The title is lifted from Christopher Isherwood: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
May 22, 2004
Batman in Bloomsbury
UCL’s Senate House standing in for Gotham City Police Headquarters
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 20, 2014
A film about Ian Nairn, and a film by Reyner Banham
The demise of the North, and the sprawl of London
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jan 22, 2006
Tales of two cities imagined in music: ‘Metropolis Shanghai’ and ‘Chavez Ravine’
1950s Los Angeles and…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Feb 22, 2013
‘Watch Dogs’ and world creation
The no-narrative narrative of a videogame city
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jan 7, 2003
‘Gangs Of New York’, world-building
Constructing and inhabiting narrative worlds, in films and games
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Apr 10, 2004
Video game flâneur
Which city would you resurrect with Rockstar’s city-machine?
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Aug 11, 2002
‘Unbreakable’, and Comics
Narrative, punctuation, closure, density—comics and cities
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